Compare GLM 5.2 from Z.AI and Qwen3.8 Max (free) from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
GLM 5.2
Qwen3.8 Max (free)GLM-5.2 is Z.ai’s flagship model for the era of long-horizon tasks. With a truly usable 1M-token context window, it can handle project-level engineering context, execute long-running tasks more reliably, follow engineering standards more consistently, and complete the full development workflow from requirements to multi-platform deployment in a single task.
Qwen3.8 Max is available for free on AIHubMix as part of GMI Cloud’s promotional campaign. The offer lasts for 30 days from launch or until the campaign credits are exhausted, whichever comes first.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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GLM 5.2 accepts 1,000,000 and Qwen3.8 Max (free) accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 131,072 tokens on GLM 5.2 and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max (free).
GLM 5.2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max (free) accepts text, image and video input.
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